The Pale Bonsai
The brass calipers were cold in my hands, heavy with the weight of steel and the specific, metallic taste of anxiety. I held them up to the light, checking the tension on the spring, a ritual I performed every morning before I touched a drawing. It was a small, precise motion. I was forty-two years old, and I had spent twenty of those years making sure that things did not fall down. In the town...
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